Ex-Cult - Midnight Passenger cd (Goner Records)

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Second album from Memphis post-punks Ex-Cult, recorded in Memphis with Doug Easley. More vicious laser-guided punk rock from Chris Shaw and the gang!

Pitchfork calls Midnight Passenger "a markedly superior album to their first one: Nothing's remotely muffled, so the guitars jump out a little faster, and
Shaw's voice is given more of a spotlight. It's an album with a
well-crafted universe..."

Goner saysEx-Cult’s Midnight Passenger is the result of a never-ending obsession
with the open road. It’s the sound of five people spending the last year
in countless dive bars and disgusting motel rooms, sleeping on dozens
of dirty floors.

Since recording with Ty Segall in 2012 the band hasn’t
come up for air, putting under their belt four US tours and tons of
weekend trips with the likes of Segall, OBN III’s and Captive.In
these sanme dive bars across the USA Ex-Cult truly found their sound.
While some of the songs were played for audiences as early as January
2013, it wasn’t until a West Coast tour in June that the blueprint for
Midnight Passenger really started to form. Taking pieces of every tour
back home with them, the band honed a sound that captures the
desperation of the first record while integrating new techniques of
negative noise.

Recorded by Doug Easley in
January 2014, Midnight Passenger delivers ten songs meant to be heard
together, each one following a different, damaged storyline. The
buzz-saw guitars, krautrock rhythms and sneering vocals are all still
present, but with Midnight Passenger, Ex-Cult adds a few layers of
psychedelic slime to their sound.